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I have a football result I want to to tell you about. It’s Cowdenbeath 12, St Johnstone 0 and of course if you were reading it, not in your morning paper but off the viddy-printer which used to chug out the scores on Grandstand , then “twelve” would have been written in brackets…

ROUND the corner from Murrayfield yesterday, as news filtered through of Scotland’s struggle against Italy, Hearts racked up a rugby score of their own with a record-breaking, double-figure demolition of Cowdenbeath that maintained their 20-point lead in the Scottish Championship.

In the build-up to what always looked like a daunting away day, Cowdenbeath’s manager, Jimmy Nicholl, struck an optimistic note. “I’m always confident we can go anywhere and get a result,” he said. “It’s the same this weekend.” All did not go to plan.…